Björn Rasch

This study identifies spatiotemporal sleep spindle clusters in aging and finds age-related changes in their expression and association with memory performance.

This study examines the effects of sustained polyphasic sleep restriction on human growth hormone release and other physiological and cognitive measures.

This study examines how word learning difficulty affects targeted memory reactivation during sleep, finding that easy words benefit more from TMR than difficult ones, with neural correlates in spindle-band power.

This study shows that playing relaxing words during sleep increases slow-wave sleep duration and quality, suggesting mental concept activation influences sleep depth.

This study investigates how body position affects word processing during wakefulness, finding that congruent body positions enhance ERP responses to sleep- and activity-related words.

The paper shows that aging affects memory consolidation during sleep, but only for memories with medium encoding quality, while weakly encoded memories remain unaffected.

The paper compares three phase-amplitude coupling measures using simulated data, finding that modulation index is most robust and mean vector length is most sensitive for monophasic coupling.

This study examines age-related changes in slow oscillation-spindle coupling during sleep and its role in memory consolidation across adulthood.

The paper shows that memory reactivation patterns reoccur during NREM sleep at a 1 Hz slow oscillatory rhythm, coordinated by theta oscillations.

This study examines how dream report collection and task incorporation during sleep affect memory consolidation, finding that NREM sleep dreams are linked to improved task performance.

This study shows that hypnotic suggestions increase slow-wave sleep (SWS) duration and quality in young healthy men and women during night-time sleep.

This study investigates whether memory reactivation during sleep remains effective in older adults, finding that while some benefit from targeted memory reactivation, others do not, with differences linked to sleep efficiency and oscillatory activity patterns.

This study shows that memory cues presented during slow oscillatory up-states during sleep improve recall, while cues during down-states do not.